乡村旅游生活方式企业家在反思当前旅游业发展中的作用

IF 5.8 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
Magdalena Falter
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摘要

目的关于旅游业发展的讨论涉及减少旅游业对旅游目的地负面影响的迫切需要。尽管几十年来人们一直在努力寻找促进可持续发展的潜在途径,但当前旅游业的发展仍主要受政治利益和增长议程的驱动。尽管有一些概念旨在改善旅游业的可持续发展,但过度旅游、对自然和当地社区的开发等负面动态仍主导着当前旅游业的现实。本文重点探讨了 "退步增长 "的概念,将其作为重新思考旅游业政策和实践的潜在解决方案,以确保更大的可持续性。本文旨在探讨这些政策和学术理论在推动可持续变革方面与旅游业实际情况之间的差距,旅游业的主要驱动力是经济增长等经济动机。就数量而言,小企业是旅游业中最主要的群体。我认为,研究他们对当前发展趋势的看法,可以为如何解决理论与现实之间的差距提供有价值的见解。本文还探讨了 "去增长 "范式如何促进旅游业的可持续发展,以及旅游生活方式企业家在这一发展中可能发挥的作用。研究结果研究结果表明,旅游业的各利益相关方对增长有着不同的态度,许多旅游生活方式企业家倾向于根据自己的价值基础采取行动,从而接受 "去增长化 "实践,尽管有时是无意识的。这种对增长以外其他方面的关注有可能鼓励旅游生活方式企业家为可持续发展做出贡献。研究局限性/影响本文讨论的例子仅限于当地,由于受访样本群体规模较小,因此不能一概而论。实践意义这些旅游生活方式企业家所采用的行动和价值观展示了如何在小范围内实现去增长:只在一定限度内实现增长,因此不会超出社会和环境容量;从这一点出发,社区福祉发挥着关键作用。本研究表明,旅游生活方式企业家可以为反思旅游业提供尚未开发的知识。社会影响本研究表明,在学术和政治讨论中,更多地揭示增长之外的道德问题和价值观非常重要。将旅游生活方式企业家作为旅游业低增长的较小规模参与者,可以成为全面反思旅游业的一个有意义的起点,并给予他们发言权。原创性/价值本研究通过认识企业家及其反思旅游业发展的潜力,强调了尚未开发的知识,最后提出了实践和政策建议。
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The role of rural tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs in rethinking current tourism development

Purpose

Discussions on tourism development address the urgent need to reduce the negative impacts of tourism on tourist destinations. Despite decades of trying to find potential ways to foster sustainability, however, current tourism development is still mainly driven by political interests and growth agendas. In spite of concepts intending to improve sustainable tourism development, negative dynamics, such as over-tourism and the exploitation of nature and local communities, dominate the current reality of tourism. This article focuses on the concept of degrowth as a potential solution for rethinking tourism policy and practices to ensure greater sustainability. Its aim is to explore the gap between these policies and the academic theories on instigating sustainable change, and the actual reality of the tourism industry, which is primarily driven by economic motivations such as growth.

Design/methodology/approach

To explore this dichotomy, this paper investigates the values of tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs. Small businesses are the most dominant group in the industry in terms of numbers. I contend that researching their viewpoint on current developmental trends could lead to valuable insights into how to tackle this gap between theory and reality. This paper also explores how the degrowth paradigm may promote sustainability in tourism, as well as the potential role that tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs could play in this development. The discussion is illustrated by a case study based on interviews with tourism entrepreneurs in Iceland.

Findings

The findings indicate that various tourism stakeholders have different approaches to growth, with many tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs tending to embrace degrowth practices by acting according to their value base, albeit sometimes unconsciously. This focus on aspects other than growth could potentially encourage tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs to contribute to sustainable development.

Research limitations/implications

The examples discussed in this paper are locally limited and cannot be generalized due to the small size of the interviewed sample group. The scalability of individual entrepreneurs’ impact is limited due to their small size.

Practical implications

The actions and values applied by these tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs demonstrate how degrowth can be manifest on a small scale: growth is only embraced up to a certain limit, so it oes not exceed social and environmental capacities; from that point on, community well-being plays the key role. This study demonstrates the untapped knowledge tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs could provide to rethinking the tourism industry.

Social implications

This study demonstrates the importance of shedding more light on ethical issues and values beyond growth in both academic and political discussions. Addressing tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs as smaller-scale actors of tourism degrowth could be a meaningful starting point for holistically rethinking tourism and give them a voice.

Originality/value

This research emphasizes untapped knowledge by acknowledging entrepreneurs and their potential for rethinking tourism development, concluding with recommendations for practice and policy.

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Journal of Tourism Futures
Journal of Tourism Futures HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
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